This is a book - -"The Wilderness Warrior" that you
must put high on your list of reading priorities. Carefully
crafted, researched with zeal and an all reaching eye, it is a
masterwork.

"The Wilderness Warrior" by Douglas Brinkley
(HarperCollins, $34.99, almost a thousand pages) is a mighty load to
lift but one of the most rewarding works of history to come down the
pike in a long time.

Sub-titled "Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for
America," this omnibus masterpiece is focused in depth on the life
and times and especially the role of nature in the career of "T.R."

Consciousness raising, important reading, replete
with anecdote after anecdote, Rice Professor and best selling author
Brinkley has out-done himself in writing "The Wilderness Warrior"
and we are all the better for it.

"Why This World" by Benjamin Moser (Oxford, $29.95,
544 pages) is a biography of Clarice Lispector, the Brazilian writer
who lived a life as interesting as the things she wrote about. This
legendary beauty made it out of the Ukraine to Brazil and worked in
the 40s as one of that country's few women journalists. Her life and
writing was influenced by Spinoza, Franz Kafka and the kabbalah and
many other factors. Well researched bio!

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About the Authors: Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer are a wife and husband
team who successfully bridge the worlds of popular culture and traditional
scholarship. Co-authors of the critically acclaimed interactive oral histories
It Happened in the Catskills, It Happened in Brooklyn, Growing Up Jewish in
America, It Happened on Broadway, It Happened in Manhattan, It Happened in
Miami. They teach what they practice as professors at Dartmouth College.

They are also travel writers who specialize in luxury properties and fine dining
as well as cultural history and Jewish history and heritage in the United
States, Europe, and the Caribbean. More
about these authors.